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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:46:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160714154654.GC14912@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fcf31ef-50af-10b5-0c34-ad647ed10a4e@aueb.gr>

Diomidis Spinellis scripsit:

> The 7th Edition Bourne shell has these commands built-in
> (usr/src/cmd/sh/cmd.c), while the 6th Edition (usr/source/s2/sh.c)
> seems to lack them completely.

Between the 6e shell and the Bourne shell there was the Mashey, or PWB,
shell, which was the first to have them built in.  So if they existed,
they were probably separate commands on 6e-ish systems that didn't reach
the outside world.  It's important to remember that the whole terminology
of editions and releases didn't apply within Bell Labs itself.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
"The serene chaos that is Courage, and the phenomenon of Unopened
Consciousness have been known to the Great World eons longer than Extaboulism."
"Why is that?" the woman inquired.
"Because I just made that word up", the Master said wisely.
        --Kehlog Albran, The Profit


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-14 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-14 13:18 Diomidis Spinellis
2016-07-14 13:23 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-14 14:12   ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-14 22:36   ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-14 22:47     ` Corey Lindsly
2016-07-14 22:49     ` Peter Jeremy
2016-07-14 23:27       ` Marc Rochkind
2016-07-15 10:13         ` Joerg Schilling
     [not found]       ` <CAH_OBieVFzPn93L8=_fmbUycZ7UmYdXiopC0vgei6RGDZp0mHw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <CAH_OBie_6gFy+BqkCMj+sr0NqTMNOQxvgWf6SQnHMJpn7DAytA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-07-14 23:56           ` shawn wilson
2016-07-15  1:04             ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15  1:22               ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-15  2:25               ` arnold
2016-07-16  6:26                 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15  2:25             ` Random832
2016-07-15  3:59               ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15  4:09                 ` Random832
2016-07-15 13:55                 ` Chet Ramey
2016-07-14 23:10     ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-15  1:41       ` Nemo
2016-07-15  9:00     ` Tony Finch
2016-07-14 14:11 ` schoedel
2016-07-14 14:38   ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-07-14 15:46 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-14 16:30   ` Random832
2016-07-14 22:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15  4:29 Rudi Blom
2016-07-15 12:27 Norman Wilson
2016-09-10  7:45 ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-10  9:13   ` Michael Kjörling
2016-09-10  9:41     ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-10 17:06     ` Random832
2016-09-10 17:45       ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-10 19:53         ` Dan Cross
2016-09-10 20:02         ` Chet Ramey
2016-09-10 20:27           ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-11 10:03         ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-09-12 10:05         ` Jacob Goense
2016-07-15 16:47 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-10 17:40 ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-10 19:22   ` arnold
2016-09-12  8:35     ` markus schnalke
2016-09-12  9:25       ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 12:41         ` Tony Finch
2016-09-12 12:50           ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-13  0:17             ` Sven Mascheck
2016-09-13  1:45               ` Sven Mascheck
2016-09-13  9:20               ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 20:12       ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-12 21:36         ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-10 22:43   ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-11  1:24     ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-11  2:39       ` arnold
2016-09-11  2:41         ` Ronald Natalie
2016-09-11  4:07         ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-11  5:01           ` arnold
2016-09-12  5:49             ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-10 14:57 Nemo
2016-09-11 17:39 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-11 18:11 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-11 18:27 ` Dan Cross
2016-09-11 18:50   ` Sven Mascheck
2016-09-11 22:13     ` Random832
2016-09-12  0:27 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-12  1:31 Norman Wilson
2016-09-12  9:33 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12  1:43 Norman Wilson
2016-09-12  9:18 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 12:56 Norman Wilson
2016-09-12 12:57 Norman Wilson

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